Eisenberg said he started doing community theater when he was “7 years old and miserable,” and it changed his life forever. She called “The Debut” an “incredible gift” and said it’s “one of the best scripts I’ve ever read in my entire life.” “It was such an honor to receive it and such a thrill to go to work every day and to get to do this incredible part with these tremendous actors,” she said, adding of Eisenberg: “He’s a beautiful writer, exemplary director and just a great talent.” In response, Eisenberg quipped: “I just want to note that the only time I’m called beautiful, it’s about writing.” Sadly, Eisenberg said that Giamatti could not attend the U.K. premiere as he has COVID-19. He is the greatest guy and you would love to hear him talk,” he said.
Bernadette Peters, Lilli Cooper, Maulik Pancholy and Havana Rose Liu round out the cast. Of acting with his childhood heroes, Eisenberg said it was “the thrill of a lifetime” but also “very strange.” “I was spending so much time enthralled with them, and then it was like Michael Jordan said, ‘Here, you take the ball!’ And I’m like, ‘What is this thing?’ So it was so distracting to me. I hope to never act alongside them again,” he joked.
In Variety‘s review, chief film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote: “‘The Debut,’ a small-town-theater comedy rooted in big ideas, is a funny and dizzying mind-bender. It’s like ‘Waiting for Guffman’ made by the Coen brothers at their most rivetingly unhinged.” “The Debut” is set to hit theaters on Dec. 11 via A24.
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